The Classics and Colonial India

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
Introduction
PART I. ALEXANDER IN INDIA
1. Dreams of Alexander
Two Visions of Empire: Droysen and Grote
Geographies of Conquest
In the Footsteps of Alexander
Kafiristan
2. Sikandar and the History of India
Writing the History of India
From Alexander to Sikandar
PART II. CAESAR IN PECCAVISTAN
3. Greater Rome and Greater Britain
De imperiis
Charles Dilke and John Seeley
Rome and the Empire
A ‘Natural’ Comparison
4. Visions of Antiquity: Architecture and the Classical Style
Tropical Classical
Theorizing Colonial Architecture
5. Competitionwallahs: Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service
The East India Company’s Training College at Haileybury
The Mid-Century Reform
The Open Competition
Oxford, Greats, and the ICS
Indians and the Open Competition
Conclusion
Appendix: The Examinations
PART III. CO-OPERATION AND LIBERATION
6. Homer and Virgil
Homer in India
Virgil in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Virgil in Nineteenth-Century Britain
History in the Future Tense
7. Aristophanes’ Wealth and Dalpatram’s Lakshmi
A Gujarati Translation of Aristophanes
The Context of Colonial Gujarat
8. Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Athens in Calcutta
Epilogue: Gandhi, Nehru, Socrates
Bibliography
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